Data Center

Mon, November 02, 2009 - Event management vendor ArcSight will soon start selling a new version of its product, designed to mine unstructured computer logfiles for signs of hacking or illegal activity.

Mon, November 02, 2009 - Tom Gonzales is planning to shrink his company's data center footprint from 45 feet by 15 feet to a mere 12 feet by 12 feet -- and he couldn't be happier. "We're using more space than we need," he says. "We're going to return some of that to the company."

Mon, November 02, 2009 - Many companies buy CRM consulting services the way they buy hardware: Fixed price. What if this just isn't the right model, no matter how good a price you get?

Mon, November 02, 2009 - As a 13 year Cisco veteran, John McCool, senior vice president and General Manager of Cisco's Data Center Switching and Services Group, has seen a boatload of change.

Mon, November 02, 2009 - While solid state drives offer increased performance, the key to figuring out the role they can play in the data center is balancing that performance against cost.

Thu, October 29, 2009 - A look at what makes data centers successful.

Thu, October 29, 2009 - EMC is working with Intel on a more energy-efficient version of EMC's Atmos cloud storage system that should be available in the second half of next year, the companies said Thursday.

Thu, October 29, 2009 - Many of us were shocked last week that a company as prominent as Danger, Inc. could make such a rookie mistake by losing the data of T-Mobile's Sidekick customers. As a system administrator, if there is one thing you absolutely have to get right, it's backups. Here are six ways to botch them.

Wed, October 28, 2009 - Amazon today said that it has taken steps to mitigate a security issue in its cloud computing infrastructure that was identified recently by researchers from MIT and the University of California at San Diego.

Wed, October 28, 2009 - The use of virtualization by cloud service providers to host virtual machines belonging to multiple customers on a shared physical infrastructure is opening up fresh data leak risks, a research report warns.